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BURNING OF ZIKLAG, DR.TALMAGES ELOQUENT SER MON AT LITTLE ROCK. Burning of the Village of David by the Amalekites the Theme of His Discourse—Eight Like Warriors of Old. find sow his honso niifniiohud ot incen diary :ind have his family on tli«‘ step to greet hint if Ly tali gram he has fore told the moment of his coiaii) -. lint -It di t! h LtTTi.K Mock, May 20.—On his way to f .’alifomia, whence he will start on Star 81 on his round the world journey, Itev. Dr. Tahnage, having halted here, Jireached today to a large audience on the subject of "Recovered Families.” The text clu isen was I Samuel xxx, 4, 111: ‘‘Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep. * * * David recovered all. ” There is intense excitement, in the Tillage of Ziklag. David and his men toe bidding goodby to their families and ite off for the wars. In that little vil lage o. Ziklag the defenseless ones will be safe until the warriors, flushed with fictory, come home. But will the de fenseless ones Ik* safe? The soft arms of children are around the necks of the bronze warriors until they shake theni- aelvcs free and start, and handkerchiefs and flags are waved .rnd kisses thrown %intil tlie armed men vanish beyond the hills. David and his men soon get through with their campaign and start homeward. Every night on their way home no sooner does the soldier put his head on the knapsack than in his dream he hears the welcome of the wife and the shout of the child. Oh, what long stories they will have to tell their families of how they dodged the battleax, and then will roll up their sleeve and show the half healed wound. With glad, quick step, they march on, David and his men, for tin y are march ing home. Now they come up to the last hill which overlooks Ziklag, and they expect in a moment to see the dwelling places of their loved ones. They look, and as they look their cheek turns pale, and their lip quivers, and their hand involuntarily comes down on the hilt ■ f the sword. ‘‘Where is Ziklag? Where are our homos?” they pry. Alas, the curling smoke above the fnin tells the tragedy! "rt il liy the Kneniy. tfhe Amalekites have pome down and pousnmed the village and parried the mothers, and thu wives, and the chil dren of David and his men into captivr tty The swarthy warriors stand for a few moments transfixed with horror. Then their eyes glance to each other, and they hun t into uncontrollable weep ing, for when a strong warrior weeps the grief is impelling. It seems as if the emotion might tear him to pieces. They “wept until they had no more power to weep.” 1 hit soon their sorrow turns in to page, and David, swinging his sword jrjgh in air, cries. "Pursue, for thou shalf pvertako them, ;»id without fail recover gll.” Now iho inarch Incomes A “double quick, ” Two hundred of David’s men stop by the brook Besor, faint with fatigue and grief. They can not go a step farther. They are left there. But the other 400 men under David, with a sort of panther step, march on in sorrow and in rage. They find by the side of the road a half dead Egyptian, and they resuscitate him and compel him to tell the whole story. He says, “Yonder they v;cnt, the captors pifd ' the captives,’’ pointing in the di- jpeptiop. Eonvard, ye‘MQ l rave men of prtl Vpry soon David and his enraged Pumpany come rqioii (ho Amalckiiish host; Yonder they seo their own wives gnd phildren and mothers, and under ^Ilialekitish guard. Here are the ofti : imps of the Amah kitish army holding a banquet. The cups in roused | the danct Jekitish host cheer and cheer and cheer over their victory. But. without note of bnglp or yarning of trumpet, pavid and bis 400 nnoi hurst upnij the scene. David and his men look up, and one glant'e at their loved ones in captivity and under Amalekitish guard throws them into a very fury of determination, for you know bow m< ii will light when thev light for their wives and children. Ah, there are lightnings in their eye, and every linger is a spear, and their voice is like the shout of the whirlwind J Amid the upset tankards and the cost ly viands crushed underfoot, the wounded Amalekites lie, their blood mingling with their wine, shrieking for luercy. No sooner do David and his men win the victory than they throw their swords down into the dust—what do they want, with swords now?—and the broken families Come together amid a great shout of joy that makes the parting scene in Ziklag seem very insipid in the comparison. The rough old warrior has to use some persuasion joetufc iic can get, ms child |n come to pirn now after so long an absence, hut pooil the little linger traces the familiar Wrinkle across the scarfed face. Ami then thu empty tankards are set up, and they are filled with the best wine from the hills, and David and his men, the husbands, the wives, the brothers, the ■isters, drink to the overthrow of the Amalekites and to the rebuilding of Ziklag. So, O Lord, let thine enemies perish! Spoils of Victory. Now they are coining home, David and his men and their families—a long pcorcsMon. Mi'ii, women and children, loaded with jewels and robes and with ktl kii'ds Ot trophies that the A mule- jutes had gathered up in years of CPU: fjuest—everything now in the hands of David and his men. When they cornu the brook Besor, the place where staid the men sick and incompetent to travel, the jewels and the roln-s and all kinds of treasures are divided among the sick as well as among the well. Burely the lame and exhausted ought to have some of the treasures. Here is a robe for a pale faced warrior. Here is a pillow for this dying man. Here is a handful of gold for the wasted trump* t- er. I really think that these men who fainted by the brook Bestir may'have endured as much as those men who went into the battle. Some mean fel lows objected to the sick ones haring any of the spoils. The objectors said, ^‘Tlmsij men did not fight.” David, With a itingunnimous heart, replies, < ! As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part 1m that tafrioth by the stuff. ” /Iking In AhIii'nI Jins subject is practically suggestive me. Thank thirl, in these timers a xi can go ..tr on a journey and lie recks and months and come hack there are Amah are Amalckiiish diseases times conur down npon cue's making as dcvislating work the day wiieu Ziklag took Ike. Tii' i- are families you n preM tit broken up. No battering ram smote in tan door, no iconoclast crumbled the statues, no flame leaped amid the curtains, but so far as all the joy anil n rrriment t.iat once belonged to that house arc con cerned the home has depart* *1. Armed diseases came down npon the quietness of the scene—scarh t h vers or pleurisies or consumptions or undefined disorders eame and seized upon some members of that family and carried them away. Ziklag in ashes! And you go about, sometimes weeping and some times enraged, wanting t ip tback \u. loved ones as much as David and I is men wanted to rceorsiiiiet Inch de spoiled households. Ziklag in a.!.*-.-. Some of yon went off from horn**. You counted the days of your absence. Every day seemed as long as a we'k. On, how glad you were when the time came for ..on to go aboard the steamboat or rail- car and start for home! Yon arrived. Yon went up the street where your dwelling was, and in the nq.ht you irat your hand on the doorbell, and, b '.io!*!! it was wrapped with the sij.ii. l of be reavement. and yon found that / lale- that what were called "crow s lect" on their faces were the marks of the black raven of tr inbh*. Did you never hear the old people, seated by (lie evening stand, talk over their early trial hardships, their the m* i I*nits, the burials, the disappointments, the empty flour barrel vhen tin re w* re so many hungry ones to fivd, tho sickness aimo: nth, where the next do cidcil between glia stly -t tuiUi i of morphine bereav* incut and an unbroken home circle? Oh, j* It was trouble that whitened their hair. It was trouble that shook the cup in their hands. It was trouble that washed tho luster from their eyes with tho rain of tears until they needed spectacles. It was trouble that made the cane a ne cessity for their journey. Do you never remember seeing your old mother sitting on some rainy day looking out of tho window, her elbow on the window sill, her hand to her brow, looking out, not seeing the falling shower at all (you well knew she was looking into tho dis tant past), until the apron came up to her eyes because tho memory was too much for her? Oft the liig, unbidden tror, Stealing down ill-! furrowed click, '1 oiu in eumUfiiC© Sincere Talcs of wo* they could not: prak. are full; the music begins. The Ama- thousand oflu r lion - !i< )]<»: s, ) Kill 1 !. ted yours. You go about V v t j amid tin* desolation of youro llc\ iii’kU, thinking of the 1 night CY is < t, ;ni<l thi* noldo hearts stopi**** 1 .: '» ‘ urd ll:<’ ntlo hands fold*si, ami you \Y( op n :t il yon have no more power* to Y.i Wa' .lu.; in ashes! A gentleman went to «l i ■ 'l ( f min > in the city of Wa hi’ :."A ■ l that through him he : nij ;ht t n eon- i snlship to some foreign rt. I*.[y 1 said to him, "What d > y i 'U I ’ r t > ; o away from your 1 can' - u! ho r i:;ti> a foreign port?" “Oh, ‘ 1:< * l'i ] 11 i (, : 1. “n.y home is gone! J.Iy s.:<< [\; 1* 'lit ii r.iv ('.cad. I mnst get away, sir. 1 can't :d it in this country any h.::,: r) AJ.'. i;.g :u ashes! 81i:mIov*s of I'rrr ‘JIA < ‘ilt. Why these long :' • vs < if 1 i i-rrr'.ve- merit across this audh ll<< Wi*. ,• is it that in alinust < v< ry i v black is thi* predominant eoh 1 t npnrel? Is it heeau «• you ilo n< lik* a : .'.u or brown or violet? Oh, m t Yo U . -, “The world is not so l>ri hr to onee it war., ‘ jind there :• : \ •tor v < t sih nt V*iic<*s, and of still i> (‘t, ' !' • ,, < loved piles gone, and when _\ *<‘11 1 ■ r*k < ’ v* r the hills expecting nn'v 1 nfy i!:<i hvcli- lies.s you find only dev; isti itii m ; j nl woe. Ziklag in ashes! ' On** day, in Ulster c nil! >?y , i T. Y., t'a* village churdi w;:> *’.'•< a.ti ■ fl in :til th.e fragraneo of tlie flov. r.N ’ wo ; nh, mat 1 e- wildering. Tli<* ma**!* ns of t’tf village had **mptie*l t!’.** ] !;uv ot* 11' s upon om* maiTiag** altar. * ))•« ■ el t!i* iv own inimlier v as ad!:*!;*** d to a ni:. Lot of i’liri -t, xVini had cum * to 1 J: l'j r to bis own tailin'. NYith )■. o amid a congratulatory adit n* t . S • V< i\ as w* re taken. In thr* ** <’aysfi i . • t 1 . t t; me one of tiiosu wlio stood ;tl til al :. ;■ . X- changed earth f"r h* a . 'en . j M>. * v .■< doing linrrch hio';e down i: l O funeral dirge. There w* re m it 1 f*il< i h fl M ■ 1 • now for tin* coffin l.il, 1. S< ‘ ( i ley lia.l all be*‘ii taken for thi* i.n <la! [ hon ir. ’i ho dead niini.-o r of ("nr: i > t,' IS broi . ,i:i to another village. H** had gone out fr* tK > i 1* than a week liefoli* in ids s’, gt!*; m w 1:** epin* s home lif* 1m . 1" - • * V iio!’ * e!;r.i'!i Irewailisl liini. Tn - : • t - mi * i> . * ssion iuoveit around to lo* IK mi t he Hill (a**** that on**e li nt h : !».’ si t lie I. i<*ssnges of salvation. Littl* *•!> ilt' ! 1VI i wei ■(• lilt* <1 up t“ b ,l| k him. A ml )] me • 1 f tilOSI! whom ho had comfort: ; d i I r 1 i1:it of H>r- vow, when they passed [ til lilt sih. i d form. made tho place drv a'lful w i t h their weeping. Another v ill: igo cm] [itied of its flowers—some of th* put in the shape of a cross to r.*! olizo hi is hope, Others put in the : ' < ! a er c.vn to symbolize his triumph. A humlr*‘d lights blown out in one itvong gm t irom the open door of a sepuleh* r. Ziklag in ashes | lieu v vn to Win. I preach this sermon today 1 ■ can: e 1 want to rally you, as David r 1 lied his men, tpr the recovery of the loved and the lost. 1 want not only to win heav en, but I want all this congregation to go along with me. 1 f<vl that somi lxnv 1 have a resjionsibility in your arriving at that groat city. Do you really want to join the 1 companionship *>f your lov* *1 ones who have gone? Ale y< u as anxious to join them us David ami his men were to join their families? Then J am here, in 111*' name of (Jed, to say that yon may and to toll you how. I remark, in the first place, if you want to join your loved ones in glory, you must travel the same w ay they v * nt. No sooner hail tin* half dead Egyptian liecu resuscitated than he pointed tho tvay thi' captors ami t!..- captives bail gone, and David and his men followed after. So our Christian friends have gmif) into another country, and if we want to reach their companionship we must take the same road. They repent ed. We must repent. They prayed. We must pray. They trusted in Christ. We must trust in Christ. They lived a re ligious life. We must live a religions life. They were in some things like our selves. I know, now tin y are gun*', there is a halo around their names, but they had their faults. They said and did things they ought never to have said or clone. They were sometime.: Sometimes east down, im from being perfect. So J . when wo har e gone some i that are now only tol rahle most resplendent. But as Ur U» in deficiencies wo ought them in taking a sup* rnal < 'in i-1 to make \ip for the deficits. Had it not been for -Iisus they would have all perished, hut Christ confronted them ami said, ‘‘I am tho way,” ami they took it. Tli«‘ of Trouble. I have also to say to you that the path that these eapiiv* s trod was a troubled path, and that David and his men had to go over the same difficult way. While these < eptiv* • were ln'ing taken off they said, “Oh, \vc are so tired; wo are sosiek; we are so hungry !” But tho men vim had charge of them said: “Stop this dying. (Jo on!” David and his men also found it u hard way. They i jmd to travel it. Our friends have gone into glory, ami it is through much trib- plation that wo are to enter- into the kingdom. How our lov* d ones used to have to struggle! How their old hearts ached! How sometimes they had a tus- I sle for bread! In our childhood wo won dered why there wue so many wrin kles on their fa -es. Wu did not know 1 , 114, . . i « t i A A ItOf y were lar appose that lungs in us may ho nl- v were* like to be like But, this scone of weepinsj o’er, I?.M thL see no of toil anil gain. They tilmll feel *listre>s no more. Never, never weep again. “Who are these under tho altar?” tho question was asked, and the response came, “These are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made tin m white iu tho blood of the Lamb. ” Our Irieuds went by a path of tears into glory. Bo not surprised, if wo have to travel tho same pathway. I remark again, if wo want to win the society of our friends in heaven, we will not only have to travel a path of faith and a path of tribulation, lint we will also have to positively battle for their companionship. David and his men never wanted sharp swords, and invulnerable shields, and thick breast plates so much ns they wanted them on the day when they came down upon the Amalekites. If they had lost that bat tle, they never would have got their families back. 1 suppose that one glance at their loved ones in captivity hurled them into thu battle with tenfold courage and energy. They said: “We must win it. Everything depends upon it. Let each one take a man on imint of spear or sword. We must win it. ” And l have to tell you that between ns and coming info thu companionship of pur loved ones who aro departed there is iiu Austurlitz, flu re is a (Juttyshnrg, there is a Waterloo, War with the world, war with the flesh, war with the devil. We have either to conquer our troubles, or our troubles will conquer us. David will either slay the Amale kites, or the Amalekites will slay David. And yet is not tho fort to lie taken worth all the pain, all the peril, all the liesicgement? Look! Who are tiny on the bright hills of heaven yonder? There they are, those who sat at your pwq table, fhe phair now ya "'.nt. Then* they are, those whom you rocked in infancy in the cradle or hushed to sleep In your arms. There they are, those in whose life your life was hound up. There they are, their brow more radiant than ever before you saw it, their lips waiting for the kiss of heavenly greeting, their check roseate with the health of eternal summer, their hands beckoning you up the steep, the feet hounding with the mirth pf heawq. The pallor of their last sickness gone out of their fare, nevermore to bo sick, nevermore to cough, nevermore to limp, nevermore to he old, nevermore t*i we* p. ’flu y are watching from those heights to s* e if through Christ yon can take that fort, and whether yog rush in up >n them—yietors 'nicy know that upon this tiatUo depends whether you will ever join their society. Up! Strike harder! Charge more bravely! Remember that every inch yon gain puts you so much farther on toward that heavenly reunion. ElOlilllvn Kl-llllitl il If this morning while I speak you ‘ could hear the cannonade of a foreign enemy which was to despoil your pity, anil if they really should siuv-eed in car rying you’, families away from you, how long would we take before we resolved to go after them? Every weapon, whether fresh from the ;irpiory or old ; and yusty in the garret, would he , tinmght out, and we would urge on, and coming in front of the foe we would look at them and then look at our fam ilies, nud the cry would he, “Victory or ! death!” and when the nniiuniiition was gone wo would take the captors mi the ! point of the bayonet or under the breech of tin* gun. If you would make such a struggle for the getting hack of your earthly friends, will you not make as much struggle for the gainingof the eternal companionship of your heavenly friends? Oh, yes, we Jnvist join them! We mu-t sit in their holy society. We must sing with them the song. We must celebrate with them the triumph. Let it ueviy he told up earth *n in heaven that David and his nien pushed out with braver hearts for tin* getting hack of their earthly friends for u few years on earth than wo to get our departed! You say that all this implies that our departed Christian friends are alive. Why. hal you any idea tiny were dead? They have only moved. If yon should go on the 2d of May to a house where one of your friends lived and find him gone, you would not think that he was dead. You would inquire next door where ho had moved to. Our departed (Christian friends have only taken anoth- (■r house. The secret is that they are richer now than they once w< re and can afford a better residence, They once drank out of earthenware, They now drink from the King's chalice, “Joseph is yet alive,” and Jacob will go up and see him. Living, are t^eyii Why, if a plan can live in this damp, dark dun geon of earthly captivity, can he not live where he breathes tho bracing at mosphere of tho mountains of heaven? Oh, yes, they are living! Do you think that Paul is so near dead now as he was when ho was living in tho Roman dungeon? Do you think that Frederick Robertson of Brighton is as near dead now as he was when, year after year, he slept seated on the floor, his head on tho bottom of a chair because he oonld find case in no other position? Do j’ou think that Robert Hall is as near dead now as when on his pouch ho t"ss ed iu physical tortures? No. Death gave them tho few black drop* that cured them. That is all death duos to a Chris tian—cures him. I know that what I have said implies that they aro living. There Is no question a’oout that. The only question this morning is whether you will ever join them. Tin' Clorious I’rntnl*., But I must not forget those 200 mmi who fainted by the brook Besor. Tlv y could not take another step fartlcr. Their fis t were sore; their head ached; their entire nature was exhausted. Be sides that they were broken hearted be cause their Inmies were gone. Ziklag in ashes! And yet David, when he comes up to them, divides the spoils among them! Ho says they shall have some of the jewels, some of the robes, some of the treasures. I look over this audience this morning, and I find at least 200 who have fainted by the brook Besor— the brook of tears. You feel as if Von could not take another step farther, as though you could never look np again. But I am going to imitate David and divide among yon some glorious tro phies. Here is a robe, “All things work together for good to those who love (JikI. ” Wrap yourself in that glorious promise. Hero is fur your neck a string of pearls iiiaile out of crystallized tears, “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy eometh in the morning. ” Here is a coronet, “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” Oh, ye fainting ones by tho brook Besor, dip your blistered feet in the running stream of God’s mercy, bathe your brow at the wells of salvation, soothe your wounds with tho balsam that exudes from trees of life. God will not utterly cast yon off, O broken hearted man, O broken hearted woman, fainting by tho brook Besor! A shepherd finds that his musical pipe is bruised. He says: “I can’t get any more music out of this instrument, so I will just break it, and I will throw this reed away. Then I will get another reed, and I will play music on that.” But God says he will not cast you off because all the music has gone out of your soul. “The bruised reed he will not break.” As far as lean tell the diagnosis of your disease, you want di vine nursing, and it is promised you, “As one whom his mother comforteth so will I comfort you. ” God will see you all the way through, O troubled soul, and when you comedown to the Jordan of death you will find it to Is* as thin a brook as Besor, for Dr. Robinson says that in April Besor dries up and there is no brook at all. And in your last moment you will be as placid as the Kentucky minister who went up to God, saying in the dying boat; “Write to my sister Kate and tell her not to In* wor ried and frightened about the story of tho horrors around the deathlied- Tell her there is pot a word of truth in it, for { am there now, and Jesus is with me, and I find it a very happy way, not be cause I am a good man, for 1 am not. I am nothing hut a poor, miserable sin ner, but I have an Almighty Saviour, and Imth of his arms are around me.” May God Almighty, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, bring us into the companionship of our loved ones who have already entered the hpav- only hind and into, the prej-cnoo of Christ, whom, pot having seen, wo love, and so David slpiU v f, eover all, “and as his part is that goeth down to the bat tle, so shall his part he that tarrleth by the stuff. ” Tln* lO-Ht Mho* III)' I.I'HlO Mon*') f«ir '■US' Mrs. S. A. Lefebtr Kossmoyne, Ohio. ■2* "M W. L. DOUGLAS Q U OKM WVKr OO OYlWCi WEl/r. SquriikU-ss, llotloni Waterproof. JU-st Shoe sold at the price. and &3.50 Dress Shoe. Terrible Misery Helpless With Rheumatism and Without Appetite Tired Feeling and Pains Dispelled by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. “ I was In terrhili* misery with rheumatism In my hips and lower limbs. I read so much about Hood's Sarsaparilla that I thought I would try It and see if it would relieve me. When I commenced I could not sit up nor even turn over in bed without help. One bottle of Hood’s Relieved Me so much that I was soon out of bed and could walk. I had also felt weak and tired all the time; could not sleep, and obtained so little rest at night that I felt all worn out in the morning, I hair no appetite to eat anything, but Hood « 4t[ $5, $4 T*.()u;ii cubtoin work, cf $3.50 Police Shoe, 3 Soles. I»< >t W .tlking Shoe » \ t r in ule. $2.50, and $2 Shoes, Unequalled at the price. Boys $2 & $1.75 School Shoes Arc the l.i-t Inr IScmce. LADIES’ $3, $2.50 $2, $1.70 lloiiKola, M> HhIi, rerf.-.i Fitting mill >• r\Ufahle.ltee: in the world. .Ml Myles, iifiiht upon having Vv. J.. Doilghlf. shoe*. Name aim price st. inped on ^ -V hotlorTi. Proi kton T HEW0Rp'S| DEALERS who push the sale of \\ . L. 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Real Estate and Insurance Agents. Merchandise Brokers and Dealers in Cotton and Guano. HANK ICI*. O. Building, Robinson St. Gaffney, Washing Cotton Itres-eH. If cotton ilresscs are jirojM'rly made, there is no reason why they should not be washed many times. To make nji sateens and ginghams with 1 Mined basques, heavily lin<*d skirts and velvet bound edges is aq uh.iirdity. Bodices and skins may Im. made together, Is'lt- tug in by means of a draw ribbon, which, In-ing loosened, minces tho gown to straight lines without folds. The frills and flounces nlxmt the should ?rs are all set on draw f jlthun h* uding* and caq alsu l>u let out flat, The big >icuvcs are supplied With an armhole .et with a draw ribbon, by which it is narrowed for wear and widened for washing. Serpentine IxMlices are used also for wash dress designs, tiieso bod. ices being practically two Hraight sash pieces. There are no bones. Lac**, if used on these gowns, is of good heavy washable, really more to Is* used that 1 lace. If ribbon is employed, it i* made t into bows easily adjusted anti removed, or ft is used under insertion of hire or embroidery, and so can be pulled out when the gown g<x*s to tho tub.—Bos ton Conner. • * A Letter From Maud. Mu, Km ton : While glancing over my mail I was happy to find a copy of Tin: l,i:i>m;n. which 1 reoeiv**1 with great pleasure. I was delighted to see such a newsy, and well gotten up paper published so near home. Wear** having fine weather for farming, and crops are looking ns well as any on** could wish. Last Friday evening after leaving my rusty ficld-picee, nml laying off my field shoes fora little hit different style I stallnl«*re<t toward tin* Asliwort school I lie wit ness t he closing exercises of the week. And as I traveled along I saw the farmers mV n\oi\\ hand ' Q intending with '’Gel*. Green.”: \(li*i was almost conquered until j the recent showers brought In a new : recruit, On my arrival at the school I found the inmates scattered around enjoy* ; ing a recess. When the hell rang and the scholars began to come in I he- j gun to wonder if there wounl lie any room for me or not. I was surprised iit the interest manifested by the large attendance at so busy a season. ii. -• •- — • . T n the house of commons there are.^eq I newspapermen, six printeys, fourtailupf-, i | three statipneijj, fwi l>ntciier>, three ho- (el kecyiers, six farmers, one coal mer- pliant and one cab driver, A London court recently practically legalized cigarette smoking by women in deciding that a mistress is not justi fied Jn discharging a rook without no tice because she snrok**d in the kitchen. A Porter county (Ind.) man has been steadily advertising for a wife for two < I years. The other day Im succeeded in bis quest, a Nebraska young woman agreeing to join with him in matrimo nial traces, A Chinaman asked to be register***! at Yuma the other day under the name of Charlie Allen. The officer reused be cause it wasn’t a Chinese name. Ha ex plained that he got the name by marry ing a white woman. }n Belgium almost the entire popula* ti*>n is Roman Catholic, ami there are over 1,500 convents, with nearly 25,000 inmates, Protestantism is tolerated and even salaried by thu state, but cannot count more than 1&,UUU adherents. LJOOD’8 Sarsaparilla wins ita way *■ into the confidence of the people by the good it is doing. Fair trials guarantee permanent CURES. Gaffney, S. C. Having ju-t pun lnts***! a HERRING-HALL-MAR YIN BURGLAR-PROOF SAFE -WITH — Automatic Bolt Work The Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company Lots in this Flourishing Town, 10 A" O I V AL < lifer for Sal** Buildin; A I"X Also Farms near by and in reach of the schools of Limestone Sprin anil of this place in lots of from !!0 to |<KI a<*res on liberal time rales. Also Agricultural Lands to rent for farm purposes. For full particulars apply to MOSES WOOD, Agent. lb—All . fishing I respnssi ng on or Ini*il ing are lands of I his < ’ompany. forbidden under penalty cutting and removing of law.- •— \ \ I* Tim** I M* iiml Safrt v I h inisit G r ist! IlOXO! My Steam < now running orn and Wheal Mil RICHMOND & DANVILLE RAILROAD. \v hette <*;i r* tliiin over to Dike my eiistoim rs fumls. Safety Deposit Boxes ;it moderate, rout. Comity claims l>oii“ht. Kxeliaiij*** bought ami sold. Tuesday’s and Saturday’s for tlie accommodation of the public.. .Milling brought to in** will receive prompt attenth n. I guarantee satis faction. Tin* work turned out equals t he best. D. R. Lavender. SHinnel Spencer, I'. (\ Hen lien Foster. . (liilrteko|M*r Mini Kerch cr*. ATI. A NT.\ * on aki.otti: DIVISION. UK-I.IM CoNliI NXFl) SClII'.liri.K <IK I’AssI Ni.l in i:rr< ct Mav i :*.in. i x<i REAL ESTATE. At Hie mile (ieorge I, ■* nort Ii of ivenner (iaffney ves. I,tin t-' .o Ml H A\I.\D opened a Real Estate Hx- ■hangc in this city I invite the patronage of any and all parties hav ing Real Estate to Rent. Sell, or Ex- elm nge. Prompt attention given 1o the col lection of rents, etc. Thus** wishing to rent or purchase real estate should consult me before closing contracts. I am prepared to file liens, mort gages, t it les, et e. Surveying a spcchilty. A rho item I ^rolOL.'! ion iVom I^ohh l>v l^iro Is to insure with the most companies. I represent the Tiahlt with asset s onn. wit Ii R, O, SAMS, I’uhlic .Etna of Marl ford t|!|O.S(l7.l»l»7 ; American Fire, of Philadelphia, with asset s of !j*‘2.l»s:b I L>; Hartford, of Hartford. < asset S of .j>7.il7S,M < .l2 ; Hume, of New York, vhh Pcqq ot Philadelphia .els of tjtJl.K.'r'.I.U.'iN. I cun plaet* any reasonable risk you may have. Don’t fail to cal! before contracting for your insurance. asset s with as- Nortlilioimd. No. :;s No. ilaity D: i f Xtliiiifa <’ tim>- ll! 0*1 N ii •1.(10 Athiuta I-: Miik* 1.IKI 1 111 ll. IHI » Tl ** Ni'i-crus- 1(1 .T, JH1I '* Hufi.nl Ho; | III *• Uaii.^sv ill.-. l!.I5 mu 11..U pill •• Lulu | 11 V! pm i *• fornelia. 11 * XI ** Ml Airy • ■ •* To coa ... j i j 4*. am . 4" *• Westminster . ’ 1 -’1 am 1 ' 4 Wj Seneca l.ill am iM “ C, nlral 44'. n ii •-*.10 am *• Oreenville 5 a. j ‘i 11 air. am V.' O, •• Spartanburg.. i 4 "I urn ill pat ** CJuffney.' . 4.42 am * •'*! pin. *• Hlaek-l.iirg . 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